Hear the Amazing and Sinister Sounds of the Deepest Place in the Ocean

The Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. Its lowest point, Challenger Deep, is a nearly seven miles below the surface. It's a different world down there, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) decided to figure out what it sounds like.

What they heard is ... kind of scary. Like the kind of thing that H.P. Lovecraft warned you about at the bottom of the ocean, when he wasn't being kind of racist. There are the sounds of the creatures, like this baleen whale call:

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But then there are the sounds of nature's fury, like the muffled magnitude 5 earthquake that sounds a lot like a rocket engine:

Then, of course, NOAA managed to get an intense juxtaposition of the two:

In an interview with Maddie Stone at Gizmodo, NOAA scientist Bob Dziak said he was surprised by the kinds of sounds from across the ocean heard at the trench, including typhoons on the surface and faraway whales, saying that the Challenger Deep resembled an echo chamber. Dziak said there are more plans to send acoustic equipment down there and listen in on the music of the abyss.